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enOpen Thread - Accidentally Awesome As Adam Ripponhttps://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/open-thread-accidentally-awesome-adam
<div class="node-media"></div><p>Move over Leslie Jones. Grace Helbig is fanning very hard over Olympic ice skater Adam Rippon, so she decided to make a video of herself failing at creating an Adam Rippon costume out of items already in her home. </p>
<p>What could go wrong? </p>
<p>Maybe it's that thing where everything goes right. </p>
<p>Open thread below...</p><br style="clear:both" /> <div class="clab-inline-atend clearfix"><div class="clab-block clab-box-sized clearfix" style="width:300px; height:250px"><div class="clab-body" style="width:300px; height:250px"><div id='div-gpt-ad-1386288741770-3' style='width:300px; height:250px;'>
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<div class="node-media"><img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/imagecache/node_primary/primary_image/18/02/253179a03f6d66669b847b46ba73b19b31b025d3_hq.jpg" alt="C&amp;L&#039;s Sat Nite Chiller Theater: The Man Who Laughs (1928) " title="C&amp;L&#039;s Sat Nite Chiller Theater: The Man Who Laughs (1928) " width="640" height="404" class="imagecache imagecache-node_primary imagecache-default imagecache-node_primary_default"/></div><p>"One of the final treasures of German silent Expressionism." -- Roger Ebert</p>
<p>Conrad Veidt's acting is amazing and if you ever wondered where the inspiration for The Joker came from, you now have your answer.</p>
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<p><span><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/bryan-warnick-438965">Bryan Warnick</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/the-ohio-state-university-759">The Ohio State University</a></em>; <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/benjamin-a-johnson-438970">Benjamin A. Johnson</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/utah-valley-university-2123">Utah Valley University</a></em>, and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/sam-rocha-438974">Sam Rocha</a>, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-british-columbia-946">University of British Columbia</a></em></span></p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/why-security-measures-wont-stop-school" target="_blank">read more</a></p>school violencesecurity measuresSat, 17 Feb 2018 23:30:01 +0000Susie Madrak137376 at https://crooksandliars.comWATCH: Shooting Survivor Makes Passionate Speech At Anti-Gun Rally: 'We Call B.S.' https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/stoneman-student-makes-passionate-speech
<div class="node-media"></div><p>Emma Gonzalez, one of the survivors of this week's latest school shooting, addressed an anti-gun rally in Ft. Lauderdale today. It was heartbreaking -- and powerful. </p>
<p>"We are going to be the last mass shooting," she vowed. </p>
<p>"Just like that, we are going to change the law. That's going to be Marjory Stoneman Douglas in that textbook and it's going to be due to the tireless effort of the school board, and most importantly the students. The students. The students who are dead, the students still in the hospital, the students who are now suffering from PTSD. The students who had panic attacks during the vigil because the helicopters who wouldn't leave us alone, hovering over the school 24 hours a day," Gonzalez said.</p>
<p>She addressed Trump’s tweet about notifying authorities, saying they had alerted the authorities about Cruz time and time again and that for students who had known him over the years, “it was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter.”</p>
<p>"Since he was in middle school, it was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter. Those talking about how we should have not ostracized him, you didn't know this kid! Okay? We did. We know that they're claiming that there are mental health issues and I am not a psychologist, but we need to pay attention to the fact that this isn't just a mental health issue. </p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/stoneman-student-makes-passionate-speech" target="_blank">read more</a></p>anti-gun rallyEmma GonzalezMarjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootingSat, 17 Feb 2018 22:21:00 +0000Susie Madrak137383 at https://crooksandliars.comAM Joy Panel: No, The Indictments Haven't Cleared Trumphttps://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/richard-painter-we-already-know-there-was
<div class="node-media"></div><p>Joy Reid hosted an informative panel discussion about yesterday's Mueller indictments of a Russia misinformation campaign -- and why they don't actually clear Trump.<br />
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"What is fascinating here, it is not news to people who watch the show. It is interesting they had two targets, pro Trump targets, people who cared about NRA, who dislike immigrants, et cetera, and people who might normally be Democratic or liberal voters," Reid said.</p>
<p>She played this clip from RNC spokesperson Kaylie McAnany:</p>
<blockquote><p>Today marks the day that the Democrats' Russian collusion conspiracy theory unraveled. We learned that the Russians were also organizing for Bernie Sanders.</p></blockquote>
<p>"Is that fact, which is in the document, they were also saying, no. We like Bernie Sanders. Is that exonerating of Donald Trump?"</p>
<p>"No, not at all," Malcolm Nance said. </p>
<p>"There are three categories of people they target when they do these information warfare operations. They target unwitting assets, people who don't know that they are being played, witting assets, people who are either in their pay or understand where the puppet strings are coming from. There are many out there which are useful idiots. Jill Stein's campaign -- they received warnings from the Russian Green Party that these people are playing you. Hillary Clinton could have won if Jill Stein was not being pushed by Russia," he said.</p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/richard-painter-we-already-know-there-was" target="_blank">read more</a></p>conspiratorselectionIndictmentsJill WinebanksJoy Reidmalcolm nanceMueller investigationRichard PainterRussiatrumpMueller InvestigationSat, 17 Feb 2018 19:00:01 +0000Susie Madrak137380 at https://crooksandliars.comOur Sociopath-in-Chiefhttps://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/our-sociopath-chief
<div class="node-media"><img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/imagecache/node_primary/primary_image/18/02/onsr1w2ee0uldr5yailo.jpg" alt="Our Sociopath-in-Chief" title="Our Sociopath-in-Chief" width="640" height="247" class="imagecache imagecache-node_primary imagecache-default imagecache-node_primary_default"/></div><p>This thing that calls itself 'President' just doesn't know how to act like a human being.</p>
<p>Source:<a href="https://splinternews.com/in-wake-of-parkland-shooting-trump-is-all-smiles-1823100381"> Splinter</a></p>
<blockquote><p>With Florida high school students practically begging politicians to do something about the gun violence that threatens their right to a decent education without fearing for their lives, the president of the United States appears to be most concerned about his own image.</p>
<p>And the image Donald Trump chooses to project to the world in the wake of the horrible massacre this week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is one of smiles and a signature thumb’s up.</p>
<p>Trump tweeted various photos following a brief Friday night visit to a hospital and sheriff’s office near the high school where 17 people died this week and many others were injured. The president and first lady Melania Trump are pictured smiling with hospital staff and police officers as Trump flashes a thumb’s up.</p>
<p>In fact, he does this several times, including in <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">the new profile photo of his Twitter account</a>.</p>ParklandtrumpSat, 17 Feb 2018 17:58:37 +0000Scarce137381 at https://crooksandliars.comParkland Students Go After Rick Scott, Rubio, Paul Ryan As NRA Enablershttps://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/parkland-students-go-after-rick-scott
<div class="node-media"></div><p>Some of the Parkland students have been unusually vocal and blunt in their assessment of who's to blame for school massacres: Republicans who take money from and are enablers for the National Rifle Association. Their rage is so strong, so raw it might even effect change in this sick culture. Here they are this morning on CNN.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/parkland-shooting-survivors-claim-blood-17-gops-nra-enablers-left-us-people-like-nikolas-cruz/">Raw Story</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Sitting down with CNN host Victor Blackwell, the five students who have started up a project called “Never Again MSD,” went right after GOP officials by name.</p>
<p>“Wednesday’s high school shooting has renewed the national conversation about gun control,” Blackwell began. “Now the president says he’s working with Congress on many fronts on this issue. In the meantime, some students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School say they feel abandoned and have a message for D.C.. You said that the governor and Senator Rubio murdered 17 people — why?”</p>
<p>“It’s Rick Scott and Marco Rubio who allowed this to happen,” student Cameron Kasky explained. “They are enablers, and the blood of 17 people and all those injured and all the families that have been hurt, this is all on them. They have us thinking that this is inevitable, and that we can’t do anything to stop it, that it’s too difficult. We’re done with that. The GOP has abandoned us and left us to people like Nikolas Cruz.”</p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/parkland-students-go-after-rick-scott" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Marco RubioNRAParklandPaul RyanRepublicansRick ScottSat, 17 Feb 2018 14:33:49 +0000Scarce137374 at https://crooksandliars.comMueller: Manafort Committed Bank Fraud With Falsified Mortgage Applicationhttps://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/mueller-manafort-committed-bank-fraud
<div class="node-media"><img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/imagecache/node_primary/primary_image/18/02/manafort.jpg" alt="Mueller: Manafort Committed Bank Fraud With Falsified Mortgage Application" title="Mueller: Manafort Committed Bank Fraud With Falsified Mortgage Application" width="640" height="427" class="imagecache imagecache-node_primary imagecache-default imagecache-node_primary_default"/></div><p>Oh, look. Bob Mueller's putting the squeeze on Paul Manafort, who's still refusing to cooperate. <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/16/mueller-manafort-bank-fraud-accusations-416509">Via Politico:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has told a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, committed bank fraud not addressed by the indictment last October in which he was charged with money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent.</p>
<p>As legal wrangling continues over a $10 million bail package for Manafort, prosecutors this week accused him of submitting false information to a bank in connection with one of his mortgages.</p>
<p>“The proposed package is deficient in the government’s view, in light of additional criminal conduct that we have learned since the Court’s initial bail determination,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing submitted on Tuesday and made public in a redacted form on Friday evening. “That criminal conduct includes a series of bank frauds and bank fraud conspiracies.</p>
<p>No criminal charges are known to have been filed over the alleged fraud, and Mueller’s office does not say in the filing whether it intends to bring any.</p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/mueller-manafort-committed-bank-fraud" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Bob Muellermortgage fraudPaul ManafortSat, 17 Feb 2018 14:30:01 +0000Susie Madrak137365 at https://crooksandliars.comMike's Blog Round Uphttps://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/mikes-blog-round-12
<div class="node-media"><img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/imagecache/node_primary/primary_image/18/01/saturday_dogs_in_bed.jpg" alt="Mike&#039;s Blog Round Up" title="Mike&#039;s Blog Round Up" width="640" height="455" class="imagecache imagecache-node_primary imagecache-default imagecache-node_primary_default"/></div><p>Quite the Friday that was for the Orange Moron, eh?</p>
<p>The <a href="http://themoderatevoice.com/another-shoe-drops-maximum-bob-charges-13-russians-election-meddling/">Russia indictments</a>, a <a href="https://www.balloon-juice.com/2018/02/16/laying-the-groundwork/">key step for Mueller</a>, strong evidence of interference with the <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-claim-mueller-found-no-collusion-is-literal-nonsense.html">investigation of collusion</a> still ongoing, a clear repudiation of his "hoax" claims.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://theslot.jezebel.com/how-friends-of-trump-use-legal-hell-to-silence-women-1823068630">Playboy Playmate affair</a>, including a <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/donald-trump-affair-new-yorker-report.html">Weinstein-like effort</a> to cover it all up (and other such affairs?).</p>
<p>Parkland students speaking up for gun control, <a href="http://www.refinery29.com/2018/02/191078/high-school-students-protest-florida-shooting">expressing their anger and frustration</a> (including rightly calling the NRA a <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=12476">terrorist organization</a>), and telling him to stay away. And then he spends only a short time with victims of the shooting, because he's an appalling coward, then makes stupid comments about the response ("record-setting," as if it's some sort of competition), before heading to his nearby Mar-a-Lago cesspool for the weekend.</p>
<p>The Russians knew he'd weaken America. I wonder if all this is beyond even their wildest dreams.</p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/mikes-blog-round-12" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Mike's Blog round upSat, 17 Feb 2018 13:00:01 +0000Michael Stickings137373 at https://crooksandliars.comTucker Carlson Warns 'Gun Control Is A Recipe For Civil War'https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/tucker-carlson-warns-gun-control-recipe
<div class="node-media"></div><p>It takes a special kind of scoundrel to demonize Americans calling for gun control as a way to prevent mass shootings in schools, such as yesterday’s mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But the despicable Tucker Carlson was more than up for the job.</p>
<h4>Carlson tried to blame any and everything for the Parkland shootings other than the actual weapon used to slaughter the students</h4>
<p>Just as he did for those who support immigration reform <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/tucker_carlson_immigrants_a_recipe_for_civil_war_020918" target="_blank">a week ago</a>, Carlson smeared those he disagreed with as likely to cause a civil war. In this case, over gun control. He just forgot to mention that a <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/09/gun-control-gallup-poll-244759" target="_blank">majority of Americans</a> support new gun control legislation.</p>
<p>But first, Carlson came up with a bunch of hypothetical explanations for the Parkland school shooting that he didn’t even bother to research.</p>
<p>“Tragedies like this happen for a reason and it probably doesn’t have a lot to do with guns,” newly-minted sociologist Carlson opined. His “proof” was that the percentage of American households with guns “has dropped dramatically over the past 35 years.” He just “forgot” to mention there has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/us-gun-ownership-survey" target="_blank">a rise</a> in gun “super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each.”</p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/tucker-carlson-warns-gun-control-recipe" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Civil WarFox NewsGun ControlTucker CarlsonSat, 17 Feb 2018 13:00:01 +0000News Hound Ellen137369 at https://crooksandliars.com